Mark Richard(II)
- Producer
- Writer
- Actor
Mark Richard was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana and grew up in Texas
and Virginia. He is the author of two award-winning short story
collections The Ice at the Bottom of the World, and Charity; and a
bestselling novel, Fishboy. His short stories have appeared in The New
Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, GQ, The Paris Review, The Oxford American,
Grand Street, Shenandoah, The Quarterly, Equator, and Antaeus. He is
the recipient of the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award, a National Endowment
for the Arts fellowship, a Whiting Foundation Writer's Award, a New
York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, the Mary Francis Hobson Medal
for Arts and Letters, and a National Magazine Award for Fiction. He has
been visiting writer-in-residence at the University of California
Irvine, University of Mississippi, Arizona State University, the
University of the South, Sewanee, and The Writer's Voice in New York.
His journalism has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Spin,
Esquire, George, Detour, Vogue, and The Oxford American, and he has
been a correspondent for the BBC. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife
Jennifer Allen and their three sons.
